Yankee Meadow Rainbows

A couple of nice Yankee Meadow rainbows.

Kents Lake 2010

I love float tubing small lakes. There are several on the Beaver Mountains. One of my favorites is Kents Lake. It is a beautiful little lake. It is so shallow that there are few places where you cannot see the bottom of the lake. Trout grow big here. Also, there are a variety. You never know if you have hooked into a brookie, rainbow, cut, or tiger trout. I caught a couple of nice cuts and rainbows on this trip. The first rainbow I hooked into dove straight back down in the weeds and it took about 5 minutes to land. I love fighting fish on a fly rod. It is also fun because you can use floating or in my case sink tip line. Fun day.

Mill Meadow Brown Trout

Snow Geese

Ty was as excited as I was when I brought home these snow geese. I had never hunted them before. My brother in law and I went to our spot and tried some intereted tactics. One of them involved underwear and a lucky duck. We were watching in awe as the canadians were buzzing around us at a range of 10 ft. We didn't know what to expect for the snow geese. We finally saw some and tried to sneak up on them, which didn't work. We covered ourselves with a painters drop cloth and waited in the spot were we spooked them. About a half hour later the sounds got deafening and the the sky turned black. I think our "tactics" scared them away again. I moved to a different spot and waited. Soon they were back again. I had a plug in my gun and was able to shoot 3 geese as they came in. A half hour later they were back and I dropped 2. We waited around for a couple of hours and they never came back. It was a blast to hunt these beautiful birds. I have been able to use a lot of these feathers to tie flies. I hope I have the opportunity to get into these birds again!


TY AND I
GOOD LOOKING BIRDS

Ducks Flying

We had a good evening duck hunt. Had birds coming in after the lucky and dropped our limit. Ty was excited to see the ducks when we got home.

Yankee Triple Crown

Trip to Yankee Meadow proved to be successful. I went after work on a weekday, so I got on the lake a little later than usual. I love the fishing right before and right after dark, but on this day the fish were biting and I wish I got there earlier. Here is a few late night snapshots, next to the backup LL Bean rod. I also released 8-10 smaller fish.

This night was also awesome because I caught the Triple Crown: Brookie, Cutthroat and Rainbow.

Another look at the triple crown.

Nice Yankee fall Brook Trout.

2009 Turkey

I drew a 2009 Southern Utah Turkey tag. After sitting in blinds, trying to put one to bed, and scouting many nights, I shot this bird as I was driving out west one evening with my father-in-law. We were just going to go for a drive to see if we could see anything and this LITTLE Jake ran across a road perpendicular to us. I jumped out of my truck and went and shot it. Hunting is simply being in the right place at the right time.